And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..."

(Genesis 1.26)

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      People, attentive to the reality of life, assert that moral and ethical principles are practices forgotten in time, equating to the discourse of the election campaign, resonant with reality, but momentary like a chronicle, eternalizing a moment of everyday life. A fact that negatively influences people's perspective and confidence, whether in relation to themselves or in relation to others, a consequence of the gap between theory and practice, speaking and doing. This is not saying that moral and ethical principles are not taught, on the contrary, the message of the Gospel of Jesus, based on the commandment of love, is an example. The Gospel message crosses borders, reaching more and more people. The advance of the Gospel is mainly due to the ongoing scientific and technological revolution, expanding the horizons of information dissemination. However, there is still a deep abyss between the speed of propagation of information and the results desired by society: The practice of moral and ethical principles.

 

      As a result of this abyss comes people's disbelief, occupying the voids of the mind. It's reckless, in every way. The emptiness of minds is easily perceived by the increase in crime rates, drugs and other evils in societies. Considering that the process of transformation of societies, a consequence of globalization, technological advances and the explosion of communications, is irreversible; the question is: How to act on the problem of the gap between the speed of propagation of information, and the results desired by society: Moral and ethical principles?

 

    The answer is challenging: The proposal is the teaching revolution, as comprehensive as the ongoing scientific and technological revolution, including the use of methods that stimulate the minds of individuals to capture and retain the teachings, and subsequent application (practice); similar to Jesus' teaching method, flexible and iterative with the environment and culture of each place. The tonic of the method would be the creation of motivating learning situations, based on emerging technologies, and on the critical awareness of individuals. In this context, the paradigm of teaching as a simple transmission of knowledge (Who knows, too, knows how to teach), the French Napoleonic model, is exhausted.

 

     ​ The main objective of the new teaching paradigm would be to make individuals perceive relationships with the environment, developing the necessary skills for the construction and communication of knowledge, based on their personal experiences. It is believed that in this way it would be possible to match the speed of propagation of information with the practice of moral and ethical principles, conferring strategic value to information.

 

    A revolution in teaching is suggested as a solution to the problem of the gap between the speed of information propagation and the practice of moral and ethical principles, parallel to the scientific and technological revolution already under way. However, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that the center of the teaching revolution is man, the whole. The parts are globalization, technologies and communications. It would be a fatal mistake to consider that the sum of the parts is greater than the whole, opposing the systemic view: Only God is greater than man. (Gen 1.26)

 

​ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..."

 (Genesis 1.26)

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      The man, created in the image of God, is the reflection of God. It means that the God who speaks and hears, the God of personality, reason, intellect, etc..., created man with the same characteristics. However, the sum of the parts: capacity for expression + personality + reason + intellect + etc..., is not greater than the whole.

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      The moment for a glimpse of the possibilities of new technologies has passed. The time has come to recover what was forgotten in time, the practice of moral and ethical principles. The model is Jesus: The two fundamentals. (Mt 7.24)

 

“Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock.”

​(Matthew 7:24)

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     Therefore, build your house on the rock that is Jesus.

 

We are the righteousness of God in Christ

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Manoel Lúcio da Silva Neto is master in Production Engineering (Media and Knowledge), author of the book, Christology at your Reach, 2010.